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12:01 AM
The new Spice Girls: Pumpkin Spice, Allspice, Bolognese Spice, Five Spice, and Curry Spice
 
12:24 AM
I am not a fan of typing out math
This is not fun
 
Travel insurance, get!
Books for trip, get!
Including the new one with Mags. cc @AshleyNunn
 
@PrivatePansy you forgot the secret blend of 19 different herbs and spices
 
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12:47 AM
@Frank I thought the new Herald Spy wasn't til later, or am I confusing it wth somthing?
 
@AshleyNunn I have book 1. Haven't read it, but I bought it.
 
user15026
Ah :)
 
Plus other books. Enough to keep me busy on the plane and train rides we're taking.
 
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Q: Gaming using 2-port powerline: Lag spikes only when YouTube is running?

sheeshMy S/O and I are currently using a 2-port powerline adapter, and we get speeds around 30up/30down with ~12 ping. It seems that our setup works completely fine except in the situation where someone is watching YouTube while the other is gaming. Things that didn't cause lag spikes: Playing CS:GO...

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Q: Can you reduce protections below zero for an enemy god, creating a damage increase?

DpeifSay I have an item that reduces magical protection by 10 for ten seconds, and you have 20 magical protection. If I hit you two times, your magical protection should be at 0, meaning you would take the full damage of a magical attack, with no reduction. If I hit you again, will you take increase...

 
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1:13 AM
Augh setting up a computer for not-me is SO STRESSFUL
 
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it doesnt help this refurb was originally a workstation or something so getting it to the happy "let's set up windows 8" part was a headache
 
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Q: How do I send my soldiers out on missions?

mugen2099At Mother Base, my soldiers are sayng: "I'll help you get resources Boss". I know from Peace Walker you can send out other soldiers on missions. How do you do that in The Phantom Pain?

 
@AshleyNunn Well there's your problem right there. Why are you setting up Windows 8? :P
 
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@SaintWacko Because it's for not-me and I don't have any win7 installs handy
 
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and said person wants netflix, the weather network, and kijiji (and thats it, seriously)
 
1:24 AM
@AshleyNunn They need a netbook, then.
Anything with processing power is really overkill for them.
 
user15026
@Frank No.
 
@AshleyNunn No?
 
user15026
It's a 15.6 inch screen
 
user15026
Dude needs to be able to see his Netflix :P
 
@AshleyNunn Okay, didn't think of that requirement. :P
YOU CAN WATCH NETFLIX ON 15.6"!
 
user15026
1:26 AM
And honestly, my experience with netbooks even for low requirement users has been kinda meh
 
I've had a user jam a USB stick into one the wrong way. ><
She was stressed and just forced it in.
The netbook didn't like it very much.
 
Raiding because my group needs me, MGS5 must wait...
 
user15026
@Frank I killed a USB/360 adapter that way once....
 
I got through the intro and into the game proper, it's awesome.
 
1:33 AM
@AshleyNunn She managed to kill her netbook doing that.
Turns out, forcing connections in ways not supported makes electronics go boom.
 
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@Frank Fun
 
user15026
I just killed the adapter, but a couple of dollars to some chinese ebay seller rectified that pretty fast :)
 
@AshleyNunn I got a call, she was all in a panic. "My netbook doesn't work! I need it this evening! What do I do!?"
And this was a Saturday morning.
 
user15026
Funsies
 
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I am just doing this as a favour to my sister's boyfriend
 
user15026
1:39 AM
so it's pretty low key
 
user15026
and while it downloads ALL THE UPDATES, I'mma gonna make me some delicious pesto and shrimp pasta
 
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Q: Does passive trace start in Uplink, if I don't log in as an admin?

NettingmanWhat if I use monitor bypass, password breaker, and after I got the password, I disconnect. No admin login, nothing in the logs, except the connection and the disconnection. Will they still passively trace me?

 
1:54 AM
wat
 
Rocket League is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. And I do.
 
2:12 AM
nice bundle, if you don't mind uplay
and that's a huge "if"
 
Okay, I need someone decide which one I should nominate: the first Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes or A Game of Shadows.
Spoiler: the second one has a naked Stephen Fry.
 
@Yuuki takes notes
 
I didn't like Sherlock Holmes when I watched it
A Game of Shadows is the sequel?
 
@PrivatePansy Yes.
@PrivatePansy I enjoyed it. More than the new BBC series to be fair frank.
I much prefer the movie's version of Moriarty.
 
I'd probably enjoy it a lot more if it wasn't called Sherlock Holmes
 
2:21 AM
And last paint set is drying.
Construction will begin when I get back from London!
 
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@Yuuki Same here
 
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I never really loved the BBC series
 
Anyone who's playing MGS5, might want to ignore the tag and @Lazers.
Retro is having fun spoilering the ending.
 
I like the BBC series in its own way, but I prefer RDJ and Jude Law as Holmes/Watson to Breakfasttrick Counterpatch and Martin Freeman.
 
Oh that's probably true. The choice of actors is better but the story as a whole didn't grab me, and more importantly it really doesn't feel like detective fiction as much as a thriller
The BBC series captured the spirit of the original but switched the setting. The movie retained the setting but abandoned what made the original good, at least for me
 
2:28 AM
@Lazers2.0 I hope those playing MGS5 have @Lazers ignored.
 
@Frank Just did it. <_< I don't even know if I'm gonna play MGS5 yet though.
 
@Fluttershy Hope you're one of those that doesn't mind spoilers, or you didn't catch it, then.
 
Y'all are crazy, BBC Sherlock is great
 
@Frank I didn't! :D
 
@Fluttershy Good!
 
2:31 AM
@GodEmperorDune I'm not saying it's bad, I just like Guy Ritchie's more.
 
@lazers well played @retrosaur
 
Retro's kinda ruining the game for others by toeing site policy on that question.
 
I believe that question was written specifically to troll the bridge
 
While I'm not a fan of spoiler tags, as they get misused a lot, we should give readers at least SOME time before going, "Hey, I don't get the ending. What do?"
 
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@Frank It has spoiler markup on it now, and I deleted the message here
 
2:33 AM
@Yuuki to your movie night question, you could always post both and see how the votes go
 
@AshleyNunn Let's hope that helps.
 
Or go with original first and sequel next month
Also if everything goes to plan, I should have another telescope upgrade tonight
Less than 100 basement floors left iirc
 
Nice.
@PrivatePansy The sequel is still a bit thriller but it makes more sense that way because it's more of a chess match of sorts between Holmes and Moriarty.
 
3:19 AM
@Frank Yeah, my friend's laptop would just crash when he did that
 
@Rapitor Thanks!
I love watching these, but I never know when they're happening
 
follow NASA on the facebooks and twits
 
I don't Facebook much, and I don't twitter at all
Now if they had an RSS feed where they said when things were happening...
 
3:24 AM
Yeah, just a few :P
Just not sure which one would tell me when launches were
Ah, well, guess you'll just have to keep telling me when launches are :P
 
fair enough
 
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Q: Steam Proxy Settings?

00100100Before I start, I would like to state, "I know that steam can be played in offline mode". The initial time you open steam it has an update it mus go through and i'm trying to run it off school laptops on detnsw WiFi (One of the students are making an arcade for the fate and needs steam for some g...

 
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3:40 AM
So night one (3 hours) of computer set up....was entirely letting teh machine run windows updates. :P
 
3:55 AM
lol
 
Grift level 29 complete in 11 minutes.
Even without Ancient Gear, I'm still doing really well.
 
4:24 AM
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Q: When playing as Woodie, is there any way to get the Glommer Flower?

KyralessaIn Don't Starve (Reign of Giants), on nights with a full moon, I can pick the Glommer Flower at the Glommer Statue, and thereafter the Glommer follows me around, providing a sanity boost if I stand close to him. The trouble is, when playing as Woodie, I turn into a Werebeaver at the full moon. ...

 
4:42 AM
@GraceNote click to jump, move mouse cursor left or right with respect to the character to move, distance dictates speed. If you encounter a vertical wall in your ascent you get bounced back slightly off of.
So if you jump too close to a wall you just land where you started: you have to move slightly back, then jump, then pick up speed, then come to a full stop on the platform. By moving the mouse back and forth without any visual or audio aid whatsoever except for the relative vertical alignment of the two
Every jump is its own little nightmare, and the game has plenty of teesny tiny ledges
and teensy tiny moving platforms
Thankfully there are very many checkponts
 
blah, spent literally thousands of blood shards trying to get Madstone and/or Uliyana's helm with no luck
Kadala is the worst
 
50 more levels to telescope
 
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Q: What does the padlock icon next to a name mean in staff management?

Phil D. I've just started looking at the staff management side of MGSV TPP and noticed a few staff members have a padlock and person icon next to their name. What is locked and why?

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Q: Why can't I place blocks in Minecraft but I can break them?

DoobajigFriendajigI just got Minecraft and I tried to place blocks by clicking the right button on the mouse. But instead of placing the block i was holding it just destroyed the block i was looking at.... I am in gamemode creative but i went into survival and it still didnt work. I went to settings and made sure ...

 
5:06 AM
ugh, dammit WHAM, stuffed mortar shell is once per battle
 
@GodEmperorDune It is? I swear I've cast it more than once per battle.
Although that might have been before they did possible changes.
 
it's not appearing in my skills dropdown after the first time
checking kolwiki
 
Ah yes, it's been changed.
I haven't cast it since the changes apparently.
I also looked up some Sauceror stuff. I'm kinda sad they took away Sauceslinging.
It was an interesting mechanic, if not somewhat annoying to master.
 
5:33 AM
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Q: Trying to find an old game, someone help!

Charisma P.I'm trying to look for a game but I'm not exactly sure what it's called. I played it from a link from myspace years and years ago. It has to do with a vampire like dracula or something and you are trapped in some small space and would like bounce around the walls if it turned into a bat. I rememb...

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Q: Do You Need A Head Enhancement

lingvanelderenupnurses often do the exact opposite. They abuse their body, eat junks, and drain all power up the control without giving them full restoration. Because of this, they currently feel exhausted after merely performing half the switch. http://healthrxpuregarcinia.com/intellux/

 
5:47 AM
/cc @fredley
 
6:02 AM
> You open the chest, and find a gift certificate. You grab it -- it seems to be for some kind of telescope company... Curious.
Discount Telescope Warehouse gift certificate You acquire an item: Discount Telescope Warehouse gift certificate
 
6:34 AM
@badp try doing a voice search (assuming that's your phone)
 
6:52 AM
Morning
 
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Q: How do I get more free diamonds in Felspire?

gamingloverI'm extremely lack of diamonds in Felspire. I want to buy more items and equipment in market. How do I get some free diamonds and without spending any money? ;)

 
@Lazers2.0 Ugh, this guy again.
 
7:25 AM
@murgatroid99 nope, just a screenshot from Android Police
I don't have an Android mobile
 
7:44 AM
Heh, the PC version of MGS5 gets bad amazon ratings, because the cd only contains a steam installer.
 
@GodEmperorDune What item is this about?
 
@Arperum telescope after a basement dive to level 500
looks like the hover text mangled it a bit
 
Eclipse: click a button, maximum overdiskthrashing
 
@badp click a button? your eclipse must be finely tuned. I just need to mouse over something for that
 
The stupid thing has frozen with 100% disk activity for the last 5 minutes
 
7:56 AM
@badp In other news: Water is wet
 
when i figure out how, i'll make this gif the icon for eclipse
 
@GodEmperorDune support for animated icons was removed in Windows 95
 
@badp maybe that's why it throws an eRRoR
 
no errors here, just maximum overdiskthrashing
 
@GodEmperorDune SO you have to beat that in multiple ascensions to get all of the bonuses?
 
8:16 AM
user image
6
ಠ_ಠ
 
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
 
HAHAHAHA. Nice one!
 
If they think that people will disable adblock just because of that, they are mighty wrong.
 
@5pike Oh hi there stylish! Convenient set of skills you have.
 
@Arperum Exactly.
 
8:30 AM
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Q: How to play minecraft multiplayer over wifi

Kartik PillaiMe and my friends want to play minecraft on a specific world in multiplayer but the problem is that we dont have cross cable and router so is there any way we can play minecraft multiplayer over wifi ?

 
8:48 AM
var column_no = 0;
switch (unavailable_days[i]) { //determine column to apply red
    case 1: column_no = 1; break; //1 = SUNDAY
    case 2: column_no = 2; break; //2 = MONDAY
    case 3: column_no = 3; break;
    case 4: column_no = 4; break;
    case 5: column_no = 5; break;
    case 6: column_no = 6; break;
    case 7: column_no = 7; break; //7 = SATURDAY
}
Jesus wept
 
9:03 AM
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Q: Dark souls: What shield or shield types stop npc overhead mashes?

user2656801So there is a capra demon, and when it first engages enemies it always does a dual weapon jump overhead smash attack that pancakes the player. I always used parry shields so I don't know if this still happens with a tower shield. Are there shields in dark souls that stop that specific capra demon...

 
@PrivatePansy I half expected him to write this:
var column_no = 0;
switch (unavailable_days[i]) { //determine column to apply red
    case 0: column_no = 0; break; //0 = SUNDAY
    case 1: column_no = 1; break; //1 = MONDAY
    case 2: column_no = 2; break;
    case 3: column_no = 3; break;
    case 4: column_no = 4; break;
    case 5: column_no = 5; break;
    case 6: column_no = 6; break;
    case 7: column_no = 7; break; //7 = SATURDAY
}
 
@badp Hehehe
 
9:22 AM
Roman numerals intensify
 
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Q: How to get a claim back?

zespriIf I mis-clicked and put in a wrong building or at a wrong place, how can I get the spent claim back? If I bulldoze the building I'm not getting my claim back, and sometimes when this happen there is no good way forward without restarting the game / forfeiting. It might be designers grand idea th...

 
@badp What are the darker achievement for?
 
@Arperum 10, 100, 1000 upgrades
For golden III you need about 1e28 score
 
9:37 AM
@badp Ah, these do take longer indeed than the get 10^X number.
 
I don't think you can get a golden V
but I could be wrong
 
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Q: Probability in getting a Legendary

jonleechdoes anyone knows the probability of getting a legendary in a card pack? I seem to have different permutations of card draws - 1 Rare 4 Commons - 2 Epics 1 Rare 2 Commons - 1 Legendary 1 Rare 3 Commons Are the a know set of permutations of cards?

 
room topic changed to The Bridge: General Arqade chat room, wherein we exercise all forms of capital-A capital-R capital-T capital-dot ART. [++art.] [-context] [-fun] [-games] [jin-fanclub] [lazers] [-popcorn] [-uni] [-xd,,,,]
I took way too long to notice that typo.
 
@badp The lowercase dot?
 
no. excercise
 
9:46 AM
@badp Even worse. it was "excersise" with an extra "s" instead of a "c". I still have the old description. Didn't think to see if I could see the difference.
 
10:07 AM
@Sterno It came out at the start of August.
@GraceNote Boiling Lizard defeated! That was a fairly easy boss, provided you brought along ice stakes. Which I did (after the scales fucked me up on the first attempt...)
@GodEmperorDune You didn't express your gratitude to @GnomeSlice for making this awesome gif.
 
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Q: Why do enemies always target my archers?

DavidYellWhen engaging in a battle with melee enemies, they always make a complete charge to damage my archers. They will forgo any defense and just charge right at them. Why do enemies favour this strategy? As archers are not that strong, I assume they are an easy target. So what tactics can I use to p...

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Q: Clans, Immortals... Is there a manual for this stuff?

dlamblinI just joined a clan with my friend and we were in steam voice chat together when we clicked "Fight" on "Today's Raid". We got a screen with an immortal, there was a timer and a damage bar that wasn't moving. I went to try and check my heroes, that didn't work, same with my relics. So I asked my ...

 
10:29 AM
Reminder that Mini Metro is on discount on the Humble Store and that the base price is increasing soon
(it's now got music)
 
Oh, this is just great the debugging functionality in VS completely broke.
 
> Early Access
:/
 
10:44 AM
@5pike the game is essentially in its final state (hence the upcoming price hike).
They might tweak the sound a little more.
 
I see.
 
Oh god. The dead is spreading.
 
The dead pile doesn't stop getting taller
 
Now the local IIS used for testing is also reporting deadness.
 
The new Google logo looks interesting.
 
10:52 AM
Yesterday's News Today, with Texenox
2
 
@badp SHIT.
Starred for truth.
 
crowd yawns cheerfully
 
@Frank
 
11:28 AM
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Q: Are portals ever deleted?

MicerI'm pretty new to Ingress and I noticed there's a huge amount of portals in my city. I don't mind that much, I just wonder: Are portals ever deleted for any reason?

 
11:45 AM
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Q: ElvUI health bars changes

klm123I haven't updated ElvUI for a few months. Now I had to do it because npc's health bars didn't work at all (it showed standard wow bards instead). But now, after update, ElvUI bars are back and I see two problems, which are new to me: 1. Agro showen incorrectly, I see with Omen, that my tank keep...

 
11:58 AM
@fredley Er?
 
o/
 
@Rapitor I unlocked multiplayer in Clicker Heroes
level 135 I think
 
Good morning Bridge
 
12:21 PM
I've never done drugs but the prologue for Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain makes me feel like I have.
 
@Sterno Is this a good thing or bad thing?
 
I don't know yet.
But I'm scared.
 
The prologue is great
That doctor is probably the worst doctor and I love him.
 
1:01 PM
@twobugs Yeah, pretty cool prologue. I'm glad that I didn't watch any trailers, so this was a pristine experience.
 
> How many twin/etc siblings do you have?
I don't know how to answer this question...
 
@5pike I'd only seen the initial bit of the flopping around on the floor, which was great
MGS5: Tactical Not Being Able To Walk After 9 Years In A Coma Operations
 
@twobugs I'm impressed that he could crawl as well as he did.
Even with drugs
 
Especially when you see how thin his arms were
And then... 10 days later he's back on the battlefield
 
usually trailers wont have the prologue anyway
 
1:06 PM
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Q: download games on a usb for an xbox 360 and how #possible?

virtsologyI want to download games on a usb without flashing my console. Is this possible and how to do it please dudes.

 
@twobugs Yeah, and the only thing that got damaged from the huge shrapnel piece in his head was his speech center.
 
I barely got to start the game proper yesterday, but it's incredible. The graphics are absolutely insane (I can't wait to play this again down the line on a top of the line PC)
 
@twobugs Yeah. Even with my old GTX560, the game looks and runs fine.
 
I like that, as usual, Kojima ain't pullin punches. You go right into the conflict in Afghanistan with the US backing the rebels against the Soviets
Damnit. Coworker brought her incredibly cute corgi puppy into the office again. Productivity is going to take a hit :(
 
1:24 PM
Holy crap. This guy... this guy appears to have never heard of SQL joins before
In a model function that obtains a listing of object A, each of which have some object B attached to it in a many-to-one relationship, he loops through each A and executes a query for every single one of them
 
@twobugs acceptable.
 
@Frank How are your plans looking?
 
@PrivatePansy Well of course.
Everyone knows SQL is intepreted and native code runs at least 100x faster.
The least work you do in SQL, the better!!
 
... It's PHP
 
It's the only way you can hope to achieve MAXIMUM OVERFASTS
@PrivatePansy just run it on a PHP machine.
I mean, they've made LISP machines, so there surely are PHP machines out there.
Isn't that what LAMP servers are all about?
 
1:35 PM
Please stop. This is physically painful to read.
 
I'm 12 and what is this?
 
@twobugs I hear the mauve ones have the most RAM.
 
LAMP server is a misnomer; it should be Hacked Apache MySQL & PHP Server running Wordpress
 
@Amelia HAMPSeW doesn't quite roll off the tongue
 
huh? ham-p-sew
 
1:37 PM
@PrivatePansy Yeah, my usual acronym is "buggered"
 
This project is pretty buggered
Not so much because of the stack, though I guess that did help, given how amateurish the rest of the code looked
The coder is not stupid - he has good ideas, he's just really inexperienced
 
@PrivatePansy Hm, what if we changed it to HAMSTEW? Hacked Apache Monstrosity, Should Terminate Extremely Wrathfully
@PrivatePansy I feel like good ideas without experience are dangerous
 
For instance, there's a piece of client side code here that catches errors on every page, both client side and when the server returns something it shouldn't have, pops up a feedback form for the user telling him that something broke, and invites them to describe what happened for logging purposes
Which is very neat
On the other hand, the same developer also wrote this
private function saltPassword($id,$password) {
	return md5($id.md5($password));
}
Which is wrong on so many levels
Starting with the fact that he named the function wrong
 
MD5....
 
you know what's really wrong? using . for concatenation
 
1:44 PM
Maybe he was frozen for 15 years and thinks MD5 is still cutting edge?
 
@badp It's PHP
That's going to be my excuse for everything
 
We ran into a keepalived issue serving some sites - we are investigating now.
 
@PrivatePansy Oh yeah, you mentioned that a few days ago.
 
@twobugs He did it twice, so it's twice as cutting edge!
 
Oh, my timeline was wrong. MD5 was considered something to be phased out roughly 20 years ago.
 
1:49 PM
Really? So MD5 was already considered obsolete before pretty much most of the Internet exist?
 
Well, it wasn't obsolete back then but it was cryptographically compromised
It was designed in 1991, people started identifying serious collisions within 3 years
 
Huh, that's a pretty short shelf life for a cryptographic algorithm
 
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Q: What does the controller icon in the top right corner mean in MGS 5 Phantom Pain (PS3)?

NobilisI've noticed that during the cutscenes in the Prologue part, sometimes a controller icon would pop up in the top-right corner of the screen. What does it mean? Is it to indicate that the cutscene is about to transition back to gameplay? Sometimes I turn off the controller during cutscenes as MGS...

 
@Lazers2.0 Gah, @SableDreamer ninja'd me
 
As a follow-up to "Have you ever been in an accident that resulted in your death?", I present:
 

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